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adolf hamster

adolf hamster

adolf hamster

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mate of mines looking to build a rig, budget is circa £200, doesn't need to be on the dot but none of this £200 turning to £250 turning to £300 turning to £1000 kind of speccing.

he currently has my old 7850, so gpu aint a problem. and he'll be using a set of old hard drives and there's an old case that could be re-used if it turns out an atx [old dell machine]

needs:
asus mobo
power supply fit for the 7850 [125w or thereabouts to the gpu]
ram
cpu

plus points:
mobo that could take a beefier cpu
ram in 4gb per slot [so can go to 16gb in future]
psu that could take a second 7850 or a beefier cpu/gpu combo

i'll confess to being stumped, best so far is a pentium g3220, asus b-85 plus, corsair cx500 and 4gb of corsair. hardly a flying machine but budget is tight.

rig will be mainly gaming, but also office work and possibly a touch of cad as well [nothing too heavy compared to gaming]
 
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good spec, scary to see the ram being the most expensive thing, guess i was lucky myself to have built my rig when 16gb of 1600 cost £56, shoulda got 32 while i was ahead :(

i know what you mean about the 8gb, i'm more inclined to have said go for 4 then put the money into better mobo/psu because ram is easy enough added later

afaik he's running a 3 year old mac [old dual core pentium] with 6gb of mismatched ram, so there's a benchmark to beat.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x Asus H81M-E Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £32.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £206.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



overclockable pentium processor on an asus board
(apparently asus are going to allow overclocking on non-z97 boards: http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...canyon-pentium-processors-on-non-z-platforms/ )
8gb ram
an appropriate psu for a oc gpu + 7850
heatsink for cpu
ps: you get free shipping, so it'll be sub £200
 
there isn't one, i've explained to him its probably not worth it compared to saving up and getting a proper rig but he's wanting something to make it a functional computer.

i suppose say £220 maximum unless there's a real good reason to go over
 
Are the hard drives SATA?

Also the motherboard in post 4 will probably need a BIOS update to get the cpu to work :(
 
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Are the hard drives SATA?

Also the motherboard in post 4 will probably need a BIOS update to get the cpu to work :(
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there's 3 of them, but if none of them are sata he does have a spare sata drive in his mac he can use.

these are looking good, i'll have to talk to him see if i can persuade him to release more money.
 
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